Progreso Semanal - Our world from progressive perpectives

By Aurelio Pedroso HAVANA - The impotent men we have on the island (avowed and anonymous) might increase their patriotic fervor if in the next 12 months they follow the ancient advice…
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By Nelson P. Valdés and Sue Ashdown “You have to figure out how you can reach the informed masses. The solution is not the newspapers... Internet is more accessible.” Fidel Castro,…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Sometimes a tempest-in-a-teapot brouhaha can reveal much about the tenor of a time, including the level of seriousness and rationality that…
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By John Greenwood From the Financial Post Three of Canada’s big banks are quietly building relations with Cuba as the Caribbean nation edges closer to free market reforms,…
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By Max J. Castro majcastro@gmail.com Certainly the United States has endured more acute crises than the one the country is mired in today. But seldom, if ever, has the country…
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This is our last issue of 2011. The year seems to have flown by. Here we are one more week to go before commencing 2012. As is our custom, we will be taking some time off for the…
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By Danny Glover and Saul Landau 2:30 PM - Departure time, the most excruciating part of visiting Gerardo Hernandez. A prison guard announced: “Visiting hours are over.”…
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By Bill Press Psssst! Don't tell anybody, but I have a secret. I talk to God every day. And she told me herself: She doesn't give a fig who wins the Republican primary. But you'd…
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By Rubiel de la Cruz Rabí From La Joven Cuba (The Young Cuba) The meeting ended in violence. Despite the years spent at the university, collegiate friendship – often demonstrated –…
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By José Alejandro Rodríguez From Juventud Rebelde (Editor’s Note: José Alejandro Rodríguez is a frequent contributor to Progreso Weekly. He recently underwent a surgical…
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